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June 20th 2013:Childhood Hunger, College Life, and Iridology

1 in 5 Children Struggle with Hunger in America. America’s Egg Farmers and Share our Strength’s No Kid Hungry® Campaign Partner to End Childhood Hunger. Leigh Ann Edwards MPH, RD will tell us how we can help. Jon Vroman “Campus Speaker of the Year” will tell us how he encourages college students to find and develop their unique talents. Hanne Hojsted will teach us about how looking at the iris of our eyes can determine information about a patient's systemic health. Practitioners match their observations to iris charts, which divide the iris into zones that correspond to specific parts of th

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Leigh Ann Edwards

Leigh Ann Edwards, MPH, RD, is National Program Operations Director for Cooking Matters. She has been with the Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters since 2006 and held various responsibilities including research and development of curricula and shepherding start up programs as they build their infrastructure. She received her Master’s in Public Health from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Interpersonal Communications from North Carolina State University. Ms. Edwards received the UNC Gilling School of Public Health, Department of Nutrition’s Outstanding Alumnus for 2008 – 2009 and was inducted into the Theta Chapter of the Delta Omega Society. She

Jon Vroman

Jon Vroman is an international speaker voted “Campus Speaker of The Year” and best-selling author. His travels the world talking with students about what it takes to Live College Life In The Front Row™. His mission is to encourage individuals to find and develop their unique talents so that they will make the biggest impact within their campus and community. Jon lives in New Jersey with his wife and son. He’s passionate about squeezing the juice out of life by creating extraordinary experiences with incredible people. In 2005, Jon founded the charitable organization Front Row Foundation, which has raised over $1,000,000 to help people braving life-threatening illnesses get front row seats

Hanne Hojsted

Hanne Hojsted was born and raised in Denmark. She studied Advanced Iridology
under Dr. Bernard Jensen at the Iridology International College in Los Angeles, and has
been practicing since 1989. In 1999, she continued her education as a Naturopathic
Doctor in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For four years, she had her own live radio broadcast show
on nutrition, and was a weekly guest host for Danny Burden Talk Show. In addition, she
has been on various radio talk shows. She has given lectures at the Women’s Health Conference in Heidelberg, Germany, at Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Successful Living Seminars in Vancouver, BC, Canada, as well as individual health consultations. Hanne is also an